Hmmm...yeah...no.
US infrastructure bill includes law that aims to end drunk driving
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#14Drunken-Driving Warning Systems Would Be Required for New Cars Under U.S. Bill ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/us/drunk-driving-system-m... ) 27 points | bonyt | 21 hours ago | 84 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29188260 . Congress' new mandate to carmakers: Figure out a way to stop drunk driving ( https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053847935/congress-cars-drun... ) 37 points | healsdata | 1 day ago |…
> Congress' new mandate to carmakers: Figure out a way to stop drunk driving
Except that it was the other way. Lobby. ( of course i don't have links. I still need my job)
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#15Wow the group supporting them is "Mothers Against Drunk Driving".
This is literally, "We need to put cameras and microphones into everyone's car and constantly monitor everyone all the time.... to protect the children of course".
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#16Wow the group supporting them is "Mothers Against Drunk Driving". This is literally, "We need to put cameras and microphones into everyone's car and constantly monitor everyone all the time.... to protect the children of course".
MADD is where that meme came from
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#17It seems that both the government and corporations agree that everything you own should spy on you constantly.
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#18Is this the first legally mandated user-hostile feature? Will it be the last?
This seems to be in the same category as seatbelts
Can a seatbelt strand you on the side of the road in the middle of the night? Can a seatbelt turn off your car in the winter? Can a seatbelt collect private data from you? Can a seatbelt record everything you do?
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#19Is this the first legally mandated user-hostile feature? Will it be the last?
This seems to be in the same category as seatbelts
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/automatic-seat-belt-terrible-id...
Automatic seatbelts we’re tried. Was a horrible idea. I still have bad memories of those things as a kid.
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#20The drunk driving lobby is massive and will try to destroy this aspect of the bill